I did recall that Linus did mentioned that he was restricted or limited by Minix, that's why he worked on Linux. Being a user of Minix myself in the late 80's, I too was severely limited with the memory handling of Minix, being written on the 8088/86 processor. When you are used to SCO Xenix on a 286, BSD 7 etc, Minix looked like a toy at that time.
On Fri, 21 May 2004, Ron Michael Khu wrote: > yes! perhaps they can now update the fortune cookie program in linux > with lines like: > > Linus and I are not "enemies" or anything like that. > -Andrew Tanenbaum > > I was using Minix when I wrote Linux, but that's in the same sense that > you are using Windows when you write your columns. Do your articles > contain Windows source code because you use Windows to write them? > -Linus Torvalds > > Linus didn't sit down in a vacuum and suddenly type in the Linux source > code. He had my book, was running Minix and undoubtedly knew the history > (since it is in my book). But the code was his. > -Andrew Tanenbaum > > > > tiger wrote: > > >On Friday 21 May 2004 8:55 am, ariel s. betan wrote: > > > > > >>This is from Tech Republic <http://techrepublic.com> > >> > >>IS TORVALDS REALLY THE FATHER OF LINUX? > >> > >> > > > >and then we have this: > > > >http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/ > > > >which has the ring of truth, even despite the acerb tone. > > > >tiger > > > > > > > > > > -- > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph > Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph > . > To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug > . > Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to > http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie > -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
